Now that Venus and Jupiter have separated from their trine, and Mars and Uranus their square, we move into a new series of aspects. Mercury will trine Saturn today, Venus will oppose Saturn in the next week, and the Sun will finally conjoin with Mars next week.

Here is what to watch for:

Mercury/Saturn:

* Coming to serious terms* Commitment* Serious communication* Gaining the praise or permission of an elder or authority* Formalizing an agreement or relationship* Technology changes * Administrative or organizational changes or the implementation of a new system* The voice of wisdom and experience* Gravity and weight of mind* Coming back to an original agreement or resuming a conversation* Re-establishing communication* Authority meets discipline in speech, communication, instruction, intellect* The ego being held in check by tradition or the wisdom of the past* Crystalizing our understanding of something​* Finishing a writing or learning project* Formal communication

Sun/Mars:

* The last stages of an exhausting process* The end of trying, pushing, struggling* An effort comes to an end* Repeated attempts that fail and finally give up* The feeling of ineffectiveness, depression, or physical depletion* A coming wave of renewal, regeneration, and rebirth* The beginning of a time of recovery* Turning a corner, regaining confidence and the will to push forward* The purging of an acute issue* Men, leaders, executives failing to execute, suffering health or confidence crises and then through failure perhaps turning over a new leaf* Giving up and giving in leads to recovery or starting over

Note that as Mars enters Leo in the next few days Mars will leave the sign of its fall or depression, picking up essential dignity/strength, but it will also be in the Sun's sign as the Sun enters its own sign and finishes the long and slow process of combustion and rebirth with Mars, meaning that the Sun will increase in its power over Mars at the very end of this process. The new Moon on Monday will conjoin with Mars and the Sun just a few days before the conjunction finally occurs, which means the next Moon cycle will very much feature the finality of this Sun/Mars cycle, concluding in some ways through not only the conjunction but a lunar eclipse at the peak of the next Moon cycle, which will launch us into an extraordinary month of transits in August! We will talk more about this in the week to come. Stay tuned!​Prayer: May we see the fruitlessness of any of our endeavors that aren't rooted in your loving and perfect guidance.

The Sun is just past its opposition to Pluto and now beginning its square to Uranus, along with Mars. Meanwhile, Venus is applying to a trine with Jupiter in Libra and Mercury will eventually trine Saturn.

* In the next week we have an interesting combination of planetary dynamics perfecting simultaneously.​* First, Mars will square Uranus.

* Then, Venus will trine Jupiter.

* Then the Sun will square Uranus just as Mercury makes a trine to Saturn.

* The Mars/Uranus and Sun/Uranus dynamic points toward the fierce desire to individuate at all costs.

* Mars/Uranus is often about the fight or the stand we must take in order to be free of something oppressing us. However, sometimes it has to do with willful and egotistical defiance, or sometimes it's simply the picture of a self-destructive rebel without a real cause.

* The Sun/Uranus combination is about heroism, knowledge, wisdom, authority, and innovation, breakthroughs in understanding or sudden illumination, especially against or through different forms of oppositional tension, or again in defiance of tradition or authority.

* Both transits can point toward us suffering from the delusion of perceiving oppositions and enemies where there are none. Both transits can point us toward the tendency toward grandiosity, ego-mania, aggression, and arrogance....even when our actions or events are rooted in some sense of progressive and positive change.

* Because Mars is being reborn through its combustion with the Sun during this time, there is also a powerful message about the failure of the will, the end of a particular way of trying to muscle our way through life, and perhaps the discovery of a more energetically sane approach, which could come to us suddenly and be incredibly liberating.

* In mundane/collective news we shouldn't be surprised to see more issues related to violence, rebellion, technology, saber rattling, leaders, rebels, and the manipulation or failure of executive forms of power...these transits will likely catalyze a further intensification and series of revelations and developments within the US political turmoil as well...but this is only really a prelude for August's astrology, which is arguably the most potent astrological month of the year for mundane transits. More on all of this later.

* What's interesting is that in sequence with these transits is the Venus/Jupiter trine and also a Mercury/Saturn trine.

* The Venus/Jupiter trine points toward a time of exciting and expansive new relationships, business partnerships, or networking opportunities, as well as the potential for the various conflicts or tensions listed above to be punctuated by opportunities for creative collaboration or compromise.

* The Venus/Jupiter trine also points toward a moment where what at first seems like adversity could quickly lead to a unique and surprising opportunity for advancement or agreement.

* The Mercury/Saturn trine points to a solidification of knowledge, a crystallization of something we are studying or learning, the implementation of a new technical or organizational standard, deepening bonds or commitments, or the potential for a healthy retraction or the agreement to remove or eliminate something that is no longer serving us.

The next ten days or so are going to be quite interesting, so we'll keep turning the heavenly jewels each day!

Prayer: Teach us to wait and watch for the real opportunities within those opportunities that we tend to jump out of our seats for.

* Mercury is trine to Saturn. You are: thoughtful, serious, committed, focused, disciplined, strict, harsh, severe, limiting your words, careful with your thoughts, finishing or finalizing an agreement, trying to cut down or cut back on something, pruning or editing, speaking with conviction, arguing with a brick wall, thinking about age, death, and mortality, finding support from an elder or words of encouragement from someone with more experience, gaining a tactical or strategic advantage, fighting wisely, and growing up.* Mercury and Saturn coming into a trine looks for support coming through age, maturity, and experience. A respectable person speaks out or offers up their help* Mercury and Saturn in a trine start building something intellectual, mental, something with words, thoughts, pages, plans...* Mercury and Saturn form an announcement, an attempt to get something under control, or a piece of news, the arrival of assistance or support* Jupiter and Pluto in square to each other bring together the process of law, justice, fairness, and checks and balances into conversation with power and the underworld, with what is corrupt at the base of old structures or traditions* The Sun walking into the t-square between Jupiter/Uranus and Pluto challenges us to take the lead on the path of our own personal transformation. Rather than letting circumstances push us into making changes, the Aries Sun encourages us to do so for ourselves, to be proactive.* The Sun walking into the t-square also offers a picture of leaders, heads of state, fathers, or prominent solar figures walking through a significant moment of change and challenge.* The image of the Sun as father, leader, prominent figure, walking into the t-square is also about acts and events that damage credibility, that imprison, that persecute, or that attack or thwart people in power. It's also about how to deal with a person in power who isn't well or who is trying to hurt or harm, bully or dominate.​Prayer: When the light is eclipsed, teach us the virtue of patient waiting and watching.

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Adam Elenbaas is a professional astrologer and the founder of the Nightlight Astrology School. Adam holds an MA and MFA in English and Creative Writing and is one of the founding writers at RealitySandwich. To learn more about Adam, click here.